Thursday, June 18, 2015

Five years ago, today, we were in Cusco, Peru.
The Piper. I had to have one of his pipes, of course. I still cannot play
it.

This lady was walking along a side street where
I had wandered into. She was dressed in costume and wanted $1.00 to allow me to
take her photogr4aph. The Piper, also had been dressed for the tourist season
and wanted a $1.00 for the modeling job. Well, it was cheap at five times the
price. They must have been sweltering in their costumes.

The daffodils started to open up in late Feb.
This one is from the 24 of Feb.

They are still doing very well, despite the wind
and rain we had a couple of days ago. The Spring bulbs are about 3 weeks early
this year.

This is a photo of the tulip bouquet that
Marlene gave us as a hostess gift. The photo was taken on the 24th February, a
few days after our dinner.

This photo of the tulips was from the 7th of
March. We were enjoying the tulips as an Ikeban arrangement. The arrangement
really needed a wider bottom and a bit more height. But the forms the tulips
took were truly inspiring.

I have been working with the DNG converter of
my RAW photos from the new SX60 and learning quite a bit about the conversion of
RAW and processing them in the ACR of my Photoshop, as well as layer blending
for what I think may be more dynamic range of the colors in the photos. Not
sure, though; what do you think?

You may have left a comment earlier. I was cleaning out the email accounts that I have linked to my ipad. I didn't think they deleted from my desktop when I dealt with them on my ipad. I may have inadvertently 'synched my devices' and perhaps caused this to happen. I have no idea about things any more. It has all become to complicated. I won't be cleaning out any emails again, until I have moderated the comments on this blog, and so published the good stuff.

About Me

I have several time consuming hobbies that I enjoy. Gardening was my first passion. When I got my computer my garden suffered some neglect but for all that the garden still looks pretty good.
To those two I have more recently added photography. Photography relates to all of my hobbies, as well as to travel, and seems to tie them all together.
I have a high maintenance, wonderfull husband, who remains the primary interest.